Snow Job

Here I sit in a pub by the sea with coffee and whisky for company, reflecting on Brian Paddick, Boris Johnson and cocaine. From a call I received this afternoon and from reading Mayorwatch this evening, I gather that Brian pitched in to The Blond at today's Reuters hustings over his past excursions into the land of snow. I'm told this took the form of a not-very-good joke, to which Johnson responded by suggesting that humour wasn't the former policeman's forte. Perhaps he should be nicer to Brian, as Ken as been recently - those Lib Dem second preferences could still go anywhere, Paddick's own included.

Anyway, all this reminded me of Pippa Crerar's recent blog on the subject of Johnson's apparent acknowledgement of his coke use to Janet Street-Porter and subsequent denials that he'd done such a thing. She gently pointed out that, "Boris was sacked from the Tory frontbench by former Tory leader Michael Howard in 2004 not for having an affair, but for failing to tell the truth about it." Frankly, I couldn't give a hoot or toot if Boris powdered his nose illegally when aged 19 - after all, I did and look what a terrific fellow I've turned out to be - and wouldn't blame him if he'd fibbed about it later. But just imagine if the Evening Standard was conducting a vendetta against Johnson rather than against Livingstone. We'd hear of nothing but denials and evasions and insinuations of profound untrustworthiness from now until polling day.

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[The Tory Troll]

Just saw the front cover of today's Evening Standard:

"Suicide Bomb Backer Runs Ken's Campaign"

Which sounds really bad unless you actually read the article which reveals that in fact a suicide bomb backer is NOT running Ken's campaign. Still what's a deliberately misleading headline between bitter enemies?

[Houls]

What's all the fuss about? Is the position really that imporant? Have we lost perspective? See my blog http://houlscerosis.blogspot.com/